The vulnerability of the ftruncate() function in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ftruncate function in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to errors in the processing of input data during syntax analysis of code. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

CVE-2024-42084

CVE-2024-42084 : Linux kernel vulnerability in ftruncate() on 64-bit architectures. In 32-bit compat mode, off_t sign-extension caused a negative length to be interpreted as a valid positive size, allowing truncation to a size between 2 GiB and 4 GiB. The root cause was the compat syscall using a...